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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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I can't work out if you disagree that birds are dinosaurs or if you think a showerthought needs to have a deeper point to it. Or both.
I agree if we were talking about the stuff in a more serious manner but in this case it fits perfectly as a shower thought because its clear that we are talking about 'technically'. Birds are inarguably dinosaurs via phylogeny hence it is funny that dino nuggets are dinosaurs in two ways.
it isn't an arbitrary reclassification like Pluto. or a discrepancy between different usages like culinary usages will have biological fruits moved into vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers.
it is more like discovering that Birds are descendants of dinosaurs and because dinosaurs is a monophyletic classification , it means that all birds are in fact dinosaurs.
if it is shocking to you because when you hear dinosaurs you think of movie monsters, then it's a you issue.
that's like believing a real farm pony can't be a pony because from my lived experience ponnies can talk and have friendship magic.
Lol it's super pathetic that they keep downvoting anyone that disagrees with them.
They sound so depressingly pathetic.
This trivial thing they are objectively wrong about and refuse to change their mind. Everyone else is wrong because when we say "dinosaur" it is not the same thing as when he thinks "dinosaur".
Imagine how insufferable they must be on other topics.
Birds are dinosaurs like a lion is a cat. When we say "cat" wie also always mean a felis catus, but that doesn't change the fact that a lion is still is a cat.
Same with birds and dinosaurs. It's not pedantic to say that birds are dinosaurs, it's pure, basic biology. And not even advanced biology. Everyone who made it past year 6 in school should know this. Lack of education is nothing to be proud of.